P3D Re: A reply to the critics

[r3dzone@xxxxxxxxxxxxx (Ray Zone)]

>I don't mind receiving justified sarcasm.  However, in this case, you both
>should get your collective act together before slamming new technologies
>you (obviously) know nothing about.
>
>Warmest Regards
>
>emanon@xxxxxxxxxx

Dear Bob,

I just visited your website and checked out the Stereo Specs page.  If you
feel that you have been flamed on photo-3d you have to understand that
throughout the history of stereography (the art, science and business of
3-D) there has been much hype and many charlatans who have attempted to
foist off on the public what was purported to be 3D and was not.  As a
result, 3-D has received a massive black eye in terms of its public
perception as an art form and a legitimate form of visual communication.  I
have made a living for 14 years converting flat art to 3-D and making
stereophotographs.  In my experience, I have many times encountered 3-D
entrepreneurs who claimed to have produced a device that displays existing
flat imagery in stereo.

I myself, at the outset of my career, attempted to fallaciously produce 3-D
by merely printing the same image twice, horizontally displaced, as an
anaglyph. (A gentleman by the name of Robert Bernier, inventor of
'Spacevision,' the system used to film Warhol's 3-D Frankenstein, looked at
my images and told me "This is not 3-D.")

The entire image may move back or forward in space but there is no lateral
parallax with respect to particular visual elements or objects within the
picture.  For example, in a true stereo image, if we show a man pointing at
us, his hand will exist in a different lateral relationship to his body in
the left eye image as in the right eye image.  If we take a picture and
merely shift the identical and entire image left or right for stereo
display we have merely displayed a flat picture in a binocular display.

Not having seen your Stereo Specs I, of course, cannot say whether this is
the case.  Also, you should know that merely enlarging the flat picture
(Video Vamp) in the binocular display will not create a 3-D effect.  But if
you have produced a genuine stereographic display, you will find no more
appreciative an audience than the subscribers to photo-3d.  And I'm sure
that many of them would be happy to serve as beta-testers for your system.
Best of luck!

Ray '3-D' Zone

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